Factors affecting speaking skills on primary students at Binh Minh School in Vung Tau city: Master of TESOL ;

Abstract

Studying speaking skills on primary students at Binh Minh primary school in Vung Tau City are affected by many factors, which are teachers related factors including teachers’ language proficiency, teachers’ methods, teachers’ emotion; students-related factors including students’ language proficiency, students’ learning styles, students’ emotion; context-related factors including teaching material, practical speaking English environment, peers. After investigating, the results show that there are not any problems with factors of teachers’ language proficiency, teachers’ methods, teachers’m emotion, students’ emotion, teaching material. This research focused on investigating the factors affecting students’ speaking skills such as students’ language proficiency, students’ learning styles, practical speaking English environment and peers. Since the classes are so crowded, students do not have many chances to speak English in class with the teachers and their classmates, and they do not know how to study effectively. Furthermore, although almost all students who have studied English for 4 years, their English proficiency is not good. The findings indicated that the English environment in classroom and other activities could motivate the students’ interest in learning and practice English both in and out of class, and the class size could affect learning. The findings also showed that with parents’ investment in time, effort and money for their children to learn English intensively, their children’s English would definitely be better. The teachers would need to create various practice exercises and encourage the students to study at home with the teachers’ control to order to help them remember the lesson better. And teachers’ limitation of speaking Vietnamese in class would stimulate students to interact in English more often and create a habit in English class. Future research will investigate these factors for students at higher level of English